The Council has put forth a demand in front of the Central Government that while restoring the DA, the DA arrears pending for 18 months should also be made one time settlement.
7th Pay Commission. The wait for the outstanding DA arrears of 18 months of Central Government employees is getting longer. Whether the payment of the outstanding DA arrears of 18 months will be done in 2022 has not been decided yet. The same government has also made it clear that there is no thought on this decision yet.
Although according to media reports, the employees are hopeful that the Modi government can take a decision on this soon, there may be a joint meeting of the JCM with the DoPT and officials of the Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure soon. However, there is no confirmation from the government yet. Has been.
On the one hand, there is talk of increasing the dearness allowance and fitment factor of central employees, the same has not yet been decided on the pending DA arrears from January 2020 to June 2021, which the employees have been waiting for a long time. The same recent statement issued by the government “Not considering DA arrears” has also disappointed.
The poor and needy could be helped. The salary of government ministers, MPs was also cut, but there was no cut in the salary of central employees, DA and their salary were paid for the whole year.
In such a situation, it is clear that from January 2020 to June 30, 2021, the arrear payment will not be made. For this, the employees may have to wait a long time. However, according to media reports, the Secretary (Staff) of the National Council of JCM. Side) According to Shiv Gopal Mishra, a joint meeting of the JCM with the officials of DoPT and Ministry of Finance, Department of Expenditure can be held soon, in which the DA arrears can be discussed.
Confirmation or statement has not come out, but the employees are constantly engaged in discussions with the government. Here, after Holi, the Modi government of the Center can remove their displeasure by increasing the dearness allowance of the employees by 3 percent.
One time settlement demand
Shiv Gopal Mishra, Secretary (Staff Side) of the National Council of Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM), says that the Council has put forth a demand in front of the Central Government that while restoring DA, one time settlement of DA arrears pending for 18 months. Settlement).
Mathematics of outstanding DA arrears of 18 months
- If the Central Government pays the DA arrears, then the employees will get the benefit of up to 2 lakh in salary.
- Shivgopal Mishra of National Council of JCM says that the outstanding DA of Level-1 employees is between 12 thousand to 37 thousand, while the outstanding DA of Level 13 employees is Rs 1,44,200 to Rs 2,18,200.
- If the employee’s basic salary is Rs 18,000, he can get arrears of DA for 3 months (4,320+3,240+4,320) = Rs 11,880.
- If the basic salary of the employee is Rs 56,000 he will get DA arrears of 3 months (13,656 + 10,242 + 13,656) = Rs 37,554.
- The DA arrears of Level-1 employees will range from Rs 11,880 to Rs 37,554.
- Level-13 (7th CPC Basic Pay Scale Rs. 1,23,100 to Rs. 2,15,900) will be available.
- For Level-14 (Pay-Scale), DA arrears can range from Rs 1,44,200 to Rs 2,18,200.
- This will benefit about 1 crore employees. This includes 48 lakh employees and 68 lakh pensioners.
(These figures are shown as an illustration, subject to change.)
